Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cruise of the Escarole and Romaine," by Douglas B. Bunce '50 about a forty-foot pedal boat is equally badly written, but might be fairly pleasant if you owned a forty-foot pedal boat at the time. John H. Updike has flooded the issue with a number of poetic fragments varying greatly in content, but all alike in their tiresome banality. Charles C. Osborne '52 local short-distance swimmer (see CRIMSON, April 19) has contributed a totally pointless poem on men's underwear which is not much better. Least funny of all, however, are two burdensomely long long stories...
...most frivolous. A group of scholars vow to live three years isolated from all female companionship, but the arrival of a French princess and her female entourage challenges and soon ridicules the pledge. Upon this comedy of incident is built the larger and more important comedy of words; poetic dialogue is the main mirth of the play. In provocative contrast, the concluding prose lines suggest both tragedy and the Shakespaere of tragic fruition. "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo," says philosophic Armado after the women have been called home. "You, that way; we, this...
...balanced and poised, and he and his cast illuminate nuances which many alert readers might miss. Furthermore, there are only polished performances to be found in the whole production. Ian Keith, as one would expect, has captured the whimsical brooding which Armado requires; Hurd Hatfield as the witty and poetic Biron is just that; Jerry Kilty as the King is a perfect pedant; and the beautiful Jan Farrand is a beguiling Rosaline. Albert Duclos', Thayer David's, and Fred Gwynn's character portrayals are outstanding...
Christopher Fry has conceived an ageless moral problem in soft verse and poetic action. "Thor, With Angles" sets this problem in 6th century England where a Jute warrior repents his war spirit and, with fear and no dogmatism, becomes a Christian. "We are afraid," he says, in peroration, "To live by the rule of God, which is forgiveness,/Mercy and compassion, fearing that by these/ We shall be ended. And yet if we could bear/These three through dread and terror and terror's doubt . . . I cannot think/We should be the losers...
...Glad Eden" by Jack A. Rowel '51 is a play of atmosphere and poetic lines rather than plot. The characters are Irish immigrants who have failed in the lumber business. The play enacts the destruction of their hopes for a successful life here...